I wonder if Karie Lindgren was one of the people at the fair years ago who didn’t know what a duck was. That perhaps explains why she recently tried to feed one candy. It does not, however, explain why she became so enraged by the duck’s refusal of her offering of treats that she hopped …
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Hopefully He’ll Inherit A Better Understanding Of Email Scams
I don’t know whether or not Robert Allan Wright Jr. is a good lawyer, but considering that he fell for a Nigerian scam brought to him by a client to the extent that he was borrowing money from other clients to help pay the fees to secure a supposed inheritance, my suspicion is no. But …
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Canada Post Is Going To Make Us Pay More Money For Less Service. Who Do They Think They Are, Bell?
In the face of mounting losses, Canada Post has come up with an innovative plan to keep its services sustainable. that plan? Massive service cuts and price increases. The Conference Board of Canada study estimated savings of $576 million a year by eliminating door-to-door delivery to urban homes. Those areas – which account for about …
Run And Spill My Curly Fries, Run And Spill My Curly Fries…
How about a soundtrack? Good luck getting that out of your head. And the Newsroom 11 intro at the end just made me feel every bit of old that the commercial hadn’t already gotten around to. Now on to business. Pretty much immediately, we get a good sense that there’s something not quite right about …
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Black Friday Body Count: Missing Dinner With Your Family Is Wrong, Says A Woman Missing Dinner With Her Family
Remember when I said that people kind of suck? Just listen to this woman who lined up on goddamned Wednesday to make sure she didn’t miss anything on Thursday. Anything but Thanksgiving with her family, I should say. For many retailers this year, Black Friday started on Thanksgiving Day. Luck called it “Blue Thursday” because …
Loser! Perdante!
It’s safe to say that Ariel Sinclair didn’t think her cunning plan all the way through. The 23-year-old assistant Rite Aid manager apparently saw an opportunity when she realized that hey, I have access to this here lottery machine and can make it do whatever I want. According to investigators, what she wanted was to …
He Shoots, But If He Could Score He Wouldn’t Be Doing This Kind Of Thing
Ok seriously, what in the actual hell is going on here? Yesterday I mentioned the recent proliferation of tubesnake tales on the site, and woke up this morning thinking that maybe today would be a day where we could talk about something else for awhile. In an attempt to make that happen, I decided to …
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No Way, Jose
The story of Jose Angel Perales Is…I’m not even sure what it is. Gross? Yeah, let’s go with gross. According to a court complaint, Perales entered the lingerie store through an unlocked door around 4:10 AM. A police review of store surveillance video revealed that Perales–5’ 11” and 325 pounds–“walked around the store and shopped.” …
One Of These Days I Swear I’ll Figure Out How To Lose This Bet And Still Win It
As many questions as this story raises, I’m feeling pretty confident that it does answer at least one. I say this because there’s no way you’re reading it and not feeling like you’ve got a bit of a handle on why Brent Todd Friest’s 8-year-old son might have been visiting a psychologist. St. Paul police …
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This iPad Is Broken. All That Comes Up On The Screen Is A Picture Of Some Idiot
You guys aren’t going to believe this. Yet another person bought an iPad from some dude at a gas station. And wonder of wonders, it wasn’t really an iPad. I know, it’s shocking! This $200 trunk bargain turned out to be a mirror dressed up like an iPad. Victim (I hate using that word in …
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